THOMPSON RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 45 OCCULT BOOKS Catalogue No. 45. OCCULT BOOKS Folklore, Mythology, Magic, Witchcraft Issued September, 2016, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Opening of our first Bookshop in Vancouver, BC, September, 1986. Every Item in this catalogue has a direct link to the book on our website, which has secure online ordering for payment using credit cards, PayPal, cheques or Money orders. All Prices are in US Dollars. Postage is extra, at cost. If you wish to view this catalogue directly on our website, go to http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/category/Catalogue45.html Thompson Rare Books 5275 Jerow Road Hornby Island, British Columbia Canada V0R 1Z0 Ph: 250-335-1182 Fax: 250-335-2241 Email: [email protected] http://www.ThompsonRareBooks.com Front Cover: Item # 73 Catalogue No. 45 1. ANONYMOUS. COMPENDIUM RARISSIMUM TOTIUS ARTIS MAGICAE SISTEMATISATAE PER CELEBERRIMOS ARTIS HUJUS MAGISTROS. Netherlands: Aeon Sophia Press. 2016. First Aeon Sophia Press Edition. Quarto, publisher's original quarter black leather over grey cloth titled in gilt on front cover, black endpapers. 112 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour. Although unstated, only 20 copies were printed and bound (from correspondence with the publisher). Slight binding flaw (centre pages of the last gathering of pages slightly miss- sewn, a flaw which could be fixed with a spot of glue). A fine copy. ¶ A facsimile of Wellcome MS 1766. In German and Latin. On white, brown and grey-green paper. The title within an ornamental border in wash, with skulls, skeletons and cross-bones. Illustrated with 31 extraordinary water-colour drawings of demons, and three pages of magical and cabbalistic signs and sigils, etc. At the end the figures are in red, and part of the text is written in white on the grey-green paper. SOLD http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310393.html 2. ANONYMOUS (perhaps by M.C. Poinsot). ROPS, Felicien [illustrator]. L'AMOUR ET LA MAGIE. Paris: Les Editions Georges-Anquetil. 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 10 x 6.5 inches, original colour pictorial wrappers reproducing an illustration by Felicien Rops. 447 pages, illustrated. In addition to the full-colour cover, there is a black & white frontispiece plus on additional full page plate within the text, both by Rops, along with additional plates by others. Text in French. Slight wear to extremities. Paper a touch browned. A very good, sound copy. Rare. ¶ Subjects included are: The Venus Myth - The Rites of Venus - The Cult of Priapus - The Secrets of Love - The Talismans of Love - - Aromas of Love - Venus Magic - The Love of Phantoms, Satanism, Vampirism and Disincarnated Souls - The Sabbat - The Black Mass - Vampires - Love and the Divinatory Sciences - Love and the Tarot Cards - Etc. SOLD http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310376.html 3. BARRETT, Francis. THE MAGUS Or Celestial Intelligencer; Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy... York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc. [2000]. First printing of this new edition. Large Quarto [ 285 x 225 mm]; original burgundy cloth titled and decorated in black and gold. 198 pp., Frontispiece portrait, Illustrated throughout in black and white, one section of colour plates. A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1801, the best modern facsimile, with new colour separation of the plates. Fine in dust wrapper. ¶ 'The Magus' played a role in the Gothic movement and more then any other book facilitated the modern revival of magic by making information from otherwise rare books more readily available. The works of Eliphas Levi, The Golden Dawn, MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley and many others all owe a debt of gratitude to this work. "Francis Barrett is a man of one book, a book which not only mirrors the extraordinarily important and far-reaching Gothic revival at the time of its publication, but heralds the revival of occultism in England and remains a source-book of the highest importance to students of the present day." - Timothy D'Arch Smith, in 'The Books of the Beast' (1987). The full title reads: THE MAGUS, OR CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER; BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY. IN THREE BOOKS; Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabalistic Art, Natural and Celestial Magic, &c.; shewing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the Celestial Influences, the occult Properties of Metals, Herbs, and Stones, AND THE APPLICATION OF ACTIVE TO PASSIVE PRINCIPLES. EXHIBITING THE SCIENCES OF NATURAL MAGIC; Alchymy, or Hermetic Philosophy; ALSO THE NATURE CREATION, AND FALL OF MAN; His natural and supernatural Gifts; the magical Power inherent in the Soul, &c.; with a great Variety of rare Experiments in Natural Magic: THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE, or TALISMANIC MAGIC; The Nature of the Elements. Stars, Planets, Signs, &c.; the Construction and Composition of all Sorts of Magic Seals, Images, Rings, Glaffes, &c.; The Virtue and Efficacy of Numbers, Characters, and Figures, of good and evil Spirits. MAGNETISM, AND CABALISTICAL OR CEREMONIAL MAGIC; In which, the fecret Myfteries of the Cabala are explained; the Operations of good and evil Spirits; all Kinds of Cabalistic Figures, Tables, Seals, and Names, with their Use, &c. THE TIMES, BONDS, OFFICES, AND CONJURATION OF SPIRITS. TO WHICH IS ADDED Biographia Antiqua, or the Lives of the most eminent Philosophers, Magi, &c. The Whole illustrated with a great Variety of CURIOUS ENGRAVINGS, MAGICAL AND CABALISTICAL FIGURES, &c. BY FRANCIS BARRETT, F.R.C. Professor of Chemistry, natural and occult Philosophy, the Cabala, &c., &c. SOLD http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310385.html 4. BETH, David. VOUDON GNOSIS. A Personally Inscribed Copy, Housed in the Deluxe 'Medji' Wooden Fetish Box Issued with the Deluxe Edition. London: Fulgur Limited. 2010. New & Revised Edition. Octavo, bound in full red (blood-orange) cloth blocked with a design by Hagen von Tulian on upper cover, titled in black on spine, black decorated endpapers, housed in a special wooden case with brass clasp, lined with velvet and carved with a voudon veve on the top. 159 pp., illustrated by Jonas Sen, Hagen von Tulien and Marlies Beth. The trade edition, limited to 800 copies. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Mykaljon, May you become a true container of the Spirits! David Beth" (with a Coptic Cross drawn below). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The box is from the Deluxe "Medji" Edition, limited to 80 copies, and was supplied to this copy. This edition is significantly different to the first edition issued by Scarlet Imprint in 2008. ¶ A fascinating interpretation of various aspects of this complex syncretic system by an adept and learned practitioner. By providing his perspective, David builds upon esoteric Voudon philosophies and practices that were initially introduced to the greater public by Michael Bertiaux in the Voudon Gnostic Workbook. The first comprehensive treatise of the realms which constitute the highly practical system of Voudon Gnosticism. From sexual magic to fetich sorcery, from the qliphotic realms on the Tree of Death to Esoteric Love and Time-Travelling, David Beth leads us towards making contact with the darkest levels and most ancient forms of consciousness and power. SOLD http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310372.html 5. BLACK, William George. FOLK-MEDICINE: A Chapter in the History of Culture. London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by Elliot Stock. 1883. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, original reddish-brown cloth decorated and ruled in black and gilt, gilt titles and rules to spine panel, dark brown coated endpapers. 228 pp Bibliography, Index. From the library of Edward L. Margetts, M.D., with his name, and acquisition date written (faintly) in ink on the front free endpaper, as well as a hand-made index by him in pencil on the recto of the same leaf - well done and interesting. There is some pencil marginalia in his hand as well. It could all be erased, but I can't see why. Overall, a near fine, bright copy of a very uncommon book. ¶ Charms, incantations, traditional habits and customs relative to the preservation of health and the cure of disease, praticed now or formerly in England or abroad. An extensive work, including sections on Charms connected with Death and the Grave and Specific Charms - Magical writings. Overlooked by many, this is a substantial work. SOLD http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310432.html 6. BUDGE, E. A. Wallis. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. An English Translation with Introduction, Notes, etc. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, original black (or very dark brown) cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine, black coated endpapers. cciv + 354 pp, [2] pp ads at rear. With three large folding colour plates plus 18 black & white plates iinserted throughout the text. Old ink name (contemporary with the publication date), corners slightly bumped, minor wear/chaffing to cloth at spine tips and along the bottom edges. A very good, sound copy of a large and hefty book. ¶ The most complete work done at the time on the Theban Recensnsion of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This is a work separate from Budge's 1895 work THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, which was a transcription of The Papyrus of Ani, herein he works from The Papyri of Ani, Qenna, Hu-nefer, Nekht, Nekhtu-Amen, Nu, Nebseni, Mes-em-neter, Mut-hetep, and others. This is the English Translation volume of what was originally issued as three volume set : the first volume being the Egyptian Text, and the third volume being the vocabulary volume. As such, this English Translation of the text is complete within itself. $225.00 http://www.thompsonrarebooks.com/shop/thompson/310414.html 7.